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LAX Great Hall to be named for mayor

The new international terminal championed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won’t be finished by the time he leaves office next month, but it will carry his name in a prominent place. Brian Sumers in the Daily News,

The airport plans to call the great hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal the Antonio R. Villaraigosa Pavilion – a name the city’s Board of Airport Commissioners is expected to approve at its Tuesday meeting. The honor should allow Villaraigosa to take a victory lap before he leaves office on June 30.

The terminal, announced in late 2008, was expected to be mostly open by now. But officials say the construction schedule was always a bit aggressive, and now the building is not supposed to fully open for at least another year. At one point, officials had hoped to at least open a large chunk of the terminal before Villaraigosa leaves office, but that also appears impossible now.